This is bad news for those of us that like to eat meat: Meat prices set to rise 10% in 2013

This is bad news for those of us that like to eat meat: Meat prices set to rise 10% in 2013

Dairy and Bread too!Yikes. Fill your freezer in hunting and fishing season. Raise chickens if you can.This is getting out of hand.

One of the biggest factors affecting food prices this year was the massive drought that devastated much of the U.S. Midwest through the summer. "A lot of the impacts on meats were delayed," von Massow said. "So we saw higher grain prices, which are getting fed now to cattle."

"Fill the freezer now, because it's going to get tougher I think going forward," he adds.

Re: This is bad news for those of us that like to eat meat: Meat prices set to rise 10% in 2013

Dairy and Bread too!Yikes. Fill your freezer in hunting and fishing season. Raise chickens if you can.This is getting out of hand.

One of the biggest factors affecting food prices this year was the massive drought that devastated much of the U.S. Midwest through the summer. "A lot of the impacts on meats were delayed," von Massow said. "So we saw higher grain prices, which are getting fed now to cattle."

"Fill the freezer now, because it's going to get tougher I think going forward," he adds.

Re: This is bad news for those of us that like to eat meat: Meat prices set to rise 10% in 2013

Dairy and Bread too!Yikes. Fill your freezer in hunting and fishing season. Raise chickens if you can.This is getting out of hand.

One of the biggest factors affecting food prices this year was the massive drought that devastated much of the U.S. Midwest through the summer. "A lot of the impacts on meats were delayed," von Massow said. "So we saw higher grain prices, which are getting fed now to cattle."

"Fill the freezer now, because it's going to get tougher I think going forward," he adds.

Re: This is bad news for those of us that like to eat meat: Meat prices set to rise 10% in 2013

Fellow poor people, don't forget to use your fat too: When you cook that bacon, save the lard. Use the fat from the baked chicken for gravy, and so on. That makes the staples we'll be eating a lot of, like rice and potatoes, much better.

Re: This is bad news for those of us that like to eat meat: Meat prices set to rise 10% in 2013

Fellow poor people, don't forget to use your fat too: When you cook that bacon, save the lard. Use the fat from the baked chicken for gravy, and so on. That makes the staples we'll be eating a lot of, like rice and potatoes, much better.

Re: This is bad news for those of us that like to eat meat: Meat prices set to rise 10% in 2013

10 percent? Where do they get these figures? Just this past year chicken (on sale) went from 69 cents per lb to 99 cents per lb. where I live. Those are the whole chickens that you have to cut up yourself. It's 1.49/lb when not on sale. A chicken is 8 or 9 $.

Bacon has gone up from 3.00 to 4.50 a lb. (the one in the butcher's counter), other prepackaged is now 6-7 dollars for 12 to 16 oz. pkgs.

We got our freezer running and when I have money and things are on sale, I grab it and put it in there.

For those of you that are afraid of the electricity bills on freezers, mine only went up about 6 dollars per mo. And my freezer is old. The newer ones should use less energy that the one I have.

Re: This is bad news for those of us that like to eat meat: Meat prices set to rise 10% in 2013

10 percent? Where do they get these figures? Just this past year chicken (on sale) went from 69 cents per lb to 99 cents per lb. where I live. Those are the whole chickens that you have to cut up yourself. It's 1.49/lb when not on sale. A chicken is 8 or 9 $.

Bacon has gone up from 3.00 to 4.50 a lb. (the one in the butcher's counter), other prepackaged is now 6-7 dollars for 12 to 16 oz. pkgs.

We got our freezer running and when I have money and things are on sale, I grab it and put it in there.

For those of you that are afraid of the electricity bills on freezers, mine only went up about 6 dollars per mo. And my freezer is old. The newer ones should use less energy that the one I have.

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I with you. Fill freezer when prices are right. I also have a fair bit of game in there right now (few rabbits, couple pheasents, deer roast).